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Judges 1:8

American Standard Version

And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

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Judges 1:8 in other translations

The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

Judges 1:8 · World English Bible

Judges 1:8 in context

  1. 6But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
  2. 7And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
  3. 8And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
  4. 9And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
  5. 10And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba); and they smote Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.